#ows ♦ Why Occupy? ♦ Alex Madrigal senior editor The Atlantic ♦

This a short clear piece covering the main answers, including the idea that #ows [s] may be trying to impede the state [s] in ways Assange envisions.

Madrigal scotches that one.

I like the rather eloquent end-piece:

So, why occupy? The point is not to hold a city park. The point is to dramatize the struggle of weak against strong, which is also the struggle of poor against rich. If the dominant theme of the occupations is, as Jay Rosen succinctly put it, “public policy favors the rich,” then having the public police arrest the weak becomes a powerful metaphor for the message of the movement.